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Joshua Waldman
Joshua Waldman, MBA, is an authority on leveraging social media to find employment. His writing has appeared in Forbes, Huffington Post, Mashable, and the International Business Times. Joshua's career blog, CareerEnlightenment.com, won the About.com Readers' Choice Award for Best Career Blog 2013. Joshua presents keynotes, trainings, and breakout sessions around the world for students, career advisors, and professional organizations.
Articles & Books From Joshua Waldman
Cheat Sheet / Updated 03-27-2016
Social media is a crucial component of the modern job search. To perform a successful job search using social-media tools, however, you need to know more than how to accept a friend or connection request or post a status update. You also need to know how to get your online profiles noticed by hiring managers, build a job-attracting LinkedIn profile, maintain your online reputation, and much more.
Step by Step / Updated 02-22-2017
A new breed of job board has emerged. The Internet has evolved beyond bulletin boards, and no one reads newspaper classifieds anymore. Social-media networks provide much more value and personalization than just reading information on forums. The new online job boards, including the ten listed here, take advantage of today’s technologies, social networks, personalization, and gamification.
Article / Updated 03-26-2016
Only about 3.5 percent of job postings ever make it to job boards. So guess how most hiring happens? If you’re thinking through social networking, you’re exactly right. Most jobs, no matter what country you live in or whether you’re a senior executive or an entry-level worker, are a direct result of networking.
Article / Updated 03-26-2016
LinkedIn is one of the most powerful tools to help you redefine yourself and move your career in a new direction. Taking your career in a new direction is a bold move that requires framing your proven skills for a whole new purpose. Identify your transferable skills, and then consider the following three ideas for using LinkedIn to advance your career change.
Article / Updated 03-26-2016
Values — those fundamental principles you believe in — are what drive your decision making, at least when it comes to the big stuff, like job searching. For example, if you value sustainability, you probably aren’t going to choose to work for an oil company. Knowing your values makes it easier to establish goals, make career choices, and most importantly, make decisions about what you want your brand to be all about.
Article / Updated 03-26-2016
Searching for a job can be a frustrating process. Whether you think so or not, you’re an expert at something. The shift from armchair specialist to outspoken expert is really just a mental shift. As long as you educate, inform, or even entertain your audience, your blog is read-worthy. With social media’s acceptance, everyone can have his or her day in the public spotlight.
Article / Updated 03-26-2016
The power of networking for your job search, on- or offline, isn’t simply who you know but also who the people that you know know. A lot of opportunities can come from those second- and even third-degree connections. If you look back at your own career, you’ll find that your friends and/or colleagues are the ones who introduced you to other people who were of great help to you.
Article / Updated 03-26-2016
Knowing who’s viewed your LinkedIn profile can be a very powerful tool for your job search. For example, if you give a presentations, then later notice an attendee viewed your profile, you might be able to reach out to that person and build a new business relationship.
You can use this tool to find and communicate with recruiters who’ve viewed your profile but didn’t reach out.
Article / Updated 03-26-2016
Search engine optimization, or SEO, is the art and science of getting found, which you definitely want to happen when you’re job searching, when someone searches a term in a search engine like Google.
LinkedIn uses a search algorithm that delivers results partly based on keyword density; that is, what percent of the time that keyword appears among all the other words on the page.
Article / Updated 03-26-2016
LinkedIn now offers you greater flexibility with what types of content you can add to your profile to help your job search. In addition to the standard Experience, Education, and Additional Information sections, you can also add the sections in the following list to reflect achievements and experiences. To add sections, just click on the Recommended for you section on you profile display.